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adventures of programmer with screwdriver
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| | Tags: | living | | Security: | | | Time: | 01:41 am |
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| I just did my taxes.
It is February.
what is happening to meeeeeeeee | comments: Leave a comment   |
| | Security: | | | Subject: | K-20 | | Time: | 12:34 am |
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| The other day we watched K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces, an awesomely over-the-top Japanese masked-thief movie. (For example: we were watching the title sequence, which mentioned that it's set in an alternate history in which Japan didn't enter WWII. I turned to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) jinian and said, "Hey, alt-history, maybe it will have zeppelins!". At which point the movie cut to the opening scene, of the ominous police zeppelin moving over the city, disgorging autogyros from its belly hangar to project the force of the sinister police state across the smoke-shrouded industrial metropolis. Autogyros! Parasitic zeppelin autogyros! More than I could have hoped for! Tesla also featured prominently in this alt-hist.) Despite a few plot disappointments later in the movie I recommend it highly. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Sadly, the finger-based earthquake info server at the UW seems to be gone. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Abstract
Wet fingers and toes eventually wrinkle, and this is commonly attributed by lay opinion to local osmotic reactions. However, nearly a century ago surgeons observed that no wrinkling occurs if a nerve to the finger has been cut. Here we provide evidence that, rather than being an accidental side effect of wetness, wet-induced wrinkles have been selected to enhance grip in wet conditions. […]
“Are Wet-Induced Wrinkled Fingers Primate Rain Treads?”, Changizi, Weber, Kotecha, & Palazzo — BoingBoing and Discover have links to the PDF (only BoingBoing's works for me right now). | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Every time I'm sick I'm surprised at how much I don't like it. You'd think I'd have figured this out by now.
Oh well. I can eat solid food again! Excelsior! | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | I haven't really celebrated my birthday the last few years. But I'd kind of like to do something. Who'd be up for dinner this Friday? I'm thinking Ethiopian food, somewhere bus-accessible. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
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